Perasma (Greek: Πέρασμα, before 1926: Κουτσκοβαίνη – Koutskovaini;[2] Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavic: Кучковени, Kučkoveni) is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece.

Kučko in the local Slavic dialect means female dog, which depicts an old tale that has been passed down from the great forefathers of the region.

During this time, the locals believed that their town and people were under a so-called curse which resulted with many dying, and with the reason unknown.

One day, a female dog ironically ran past the village's church and had ten little babies, all of whom were extremely healthy and were nurtured by their mother.

During the times of the Ottoman Empire, Perasma was under the Church Dioscese of Kastoria, which was also when their main monastery, Agioi Anargyroi, was built in 1300.

[11] During the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II, the Germans placed a Bulgarian council in Perasma, which consisted of local people from the village such as Kosta Nedelkoff, Todor Popdimitroff, Nase Gagapoff, Iliya Popstoyanoff, Dimitriya Kincharoff, Pandel Gichkaloff, Nikola Popstoyanoff, Iliya Pirganoff and Boris Nedelkoff.

Once the Axis powers lost their complete control over the Greek region, many of these men were sentenced to years in prison - some were sent as far as Gyaros Island in the Aegean gulf.

Once the Greek Civil War erupted post WWII, most Perasmiotes sided with the communist parties - KKE and/or NOF.

In 1948, 300 men from Perasma were sentenced to prison by the Greek government for being former "collaborators with the Bulgarian Ohrana troops during WWII".

[10] During and after the Greek Civil War, many villagers were exiled to communist countries (Yugoslavia, Poland and even Russia).